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Happy Anniversary Adventures
Tod & I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary in Shimobe Onsen, Yamanashi, this weekend. One night and two days neatly encapsulated two dozen years of marriage. The town is one of the 100 Famous Onsen of Japan, but nobody has heard of it. It’s a one-street village with ten hotels, four restaurants, one bar, a…
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20 Challenges of Offline Life
Recently I’ve been frustrated with myself for spending too much time online, in front of screens, and otherwise engaged in virtual realities. I’ve given Facebook a little rest but it’s not enough. I still spend too much time online. When I am offline I am so super productive. It’s sort of scary how much I…
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What’s important?
Tod asked me a difficult question last night as we discussed current events and the state of the world. “What’s important to you?” The question carried an implied “And which of these things are important enough to act on?” which does limit the answers to more than theoretical concerns. I had three main areas of…
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In A Band
After 20 months of study, practice, and carrying my ukulele with me on trips around the world, I’ve joined a band. Maybe it’s no surprise that the band is me and Tod. Ukulele and melodica with me doing some singing. I am so happy to make “a joyful noise” with Tod. A shared creative pursuit is…
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Right in Front of Me
I am closing out July by organising the rest of my summer. I’ve got a lot of projects going on from now until the end of the year and they have gotten scattered. So I wrote them all down on little cards and put them up on the wall above my desk. Now I can…
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Sayonara, Facebook
Facebook is troublesome. It is the Jekyll and Hyde of online life. Some days I find it a delightful inspiration. Other days, I want to poke myself in the eyes after scrolling through my timeline. I know I am not alone in experiencing FB as a source of jealousy, anger and frustration. When I see…
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Identity Crisis
Last night I had a strange and vivid dream. It touched on something that I have always wondered about secretly. In the dream, my mother revealed a document that showed the true bloodlines of recent generations in our family. She’d had a curly-haired brother named Gabe who was killed in a knife fight when he…
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What’s Beyond Science
I am torn about writing this. It puts me deep into a class of people I have shunned for so long. The New Age Hippie Freaks. And yet my time in the circus opened my eyes to some things that I have long denied and usually hide about myself. Let me start with a…
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Welcome 2013
Wishing all the best to friends and family in the coming year.
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25 Words
Hooping took me up to Tohoku, down to Niijima, and around the world on tour. Ukulele, yoga, improv, songwriting, skating, visiting, & fundraising filled the gaps. Here are all the 25 word summaries since I started this annual project in 2001: 2011 Mother Earth trembled and futures fell apart. Uncertainty ruled us for months but…
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